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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

Look no further than the “ entrepreneur ” and “ start-ups ” categories to see what it takes to build a successful company. Selling one’s company to an ESOP, an employee stock ownership plan, does just that. Selling to an ESOP preserves company culture and increases productivity, which generally ensures strong future performance.

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2020 Exit Planning Checklist

Strategy Driven

The earlier you begin planning, the more options you will have for a successful exit. Sale to Third-Party | Sale to Insiders | Transfer to Family Members | Sale to ESOP | Absentee Owner. At the core of tomorrow’s successful exit plan is today’s profitability and plan for growth. Strengthen business value drivers.

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Employee Benefits: Types, Cost & Examples

HR Digest

Employee benefits are an important aspect of every successful organization. Examples of these benefits include retirement plans (such as 401(K), ESOP, etc), reimbursement plans for travel or tuition, employee bonus , paid time off (PTO), and many more. We can go on and on. They play a role in making job ads attractive too.

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Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

Since the mid-2000s, broad-based shared capitalist programs — in other words, programs where firms offer profit sharing and employee ownership to nonmanagers as well as managers — have spread to cover more employees than traditional forms of individual performance-based pay in Europe and the United States.

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Treat Employees Like Business Owners

Harvard Business Review

Many large corporations manage to find big bundles of shares (and huge amounts of cash) for executive compensation, even though there’s little relationship between senior-management pay and financial results. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. It doesn’t have to be. Insight Center.

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

By providing more workers and employees with opportunities to buy shares, companies can help workers and communities raise their standard of living and simultaneously feel more invested — literally — in the success of the enterprise. ESOPs typically allocate shares to employees in proportion to their pay. Already, U.S.

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